HENDRICK FAMILY

The following bio was taken from page 233 of the book entitled "Rusk County History" compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

Transcribed by Shirley Koym

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of Texas

Dr. Seaborn (sometimes spelled Seeburn) Jones Hendrick, born June 29, 1813, in Georgia, son of John Hurt Hendrick and Martha Ann Baker Hendrick, settled in Rusk County in the 1840’s.

Dr. Hendrick’s grandfather was Humphrey Hendrick, who was born in 1753 in Ireland and came to America in time to be a Revolutionary Soldier of Virginia, and later received bounty land in Georgia. Humphrey’s wife was Anna.

When Dr. Hendrick’s father, John Hurt Hendrick, born May 10, 1778, was killed by Indians in Putnam County, Georgia, May 17, 1816, his mother, Martha Ann Baker Hendrick, born May 27, 1789, then married Sherrod Melone, who died about 1820. Ann came to Texas in 1821, returned to Georgia, and then came back to Texas to Austin’s colony in 1828 and married Allen Vince, owner of Vince’s Bridge. After Allen Vince’s death, Ann came to Rusk County where she married Reverend Obediah Dodson, who found Holly Springs Baptist Church (now Pine Hill Baptist Church, founded in 1851). Ann died July 12, 1869, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, north of Tatum, Texas.

Dr. Hendrick married Francis E. (Fanny) Smith, on August 9, 1837. Fanny, born December 7, 1818, was the daughter of John Smith of Georgia, who married Nancy Mitchell, daughter of General Hat (Henry) Mitchell, who was the son of David B. Mitchell (born October 22, 1766, in Scotland) Governor of Georgia.

Dr. Hendrick’s children were: John Stephen Hendrick, born May 16, 1838, soldier of the Confederate States of America, killed August 24, 1864; Martha Ann Vince Hendrick, born September 14, 1839, died October 18, 1840; Allen Vince Hendrick, born October 10, 1841, who married Bell V. Cocke on July 11, 1872 and died in 1899 and is buried at Harmony Hill; Emma Carolina Hendrick, born November 17, 1843, who first married William C. Tatum on July 26, 1860. After William’s death December 20, 1862, she married Dr. A. G. Shaw of Harmony Hill, in 1874. Her daughter, Lola L. Tatum, born May 21, 1861, married J. P. Miller, March 1, 1883; Wesley Hall Hendrick, born March 7, 1846; Seaborn Jones Hendrick, born August 11, 1848, married Ellen Hall, daughter of Bollin Hall, October 5, 1871. He became a judge in Rusk County, owned a drugstore at Harmony Hill and was on the Commission to purchase the San Jacinto Battlefield in 1897. Judge Hendrick died February 12, 1912. The Judge’s daughter, Carrie E. Hendrick, born November 23, 1873, married Tom Norvell, son of John Norvell and Kiziah Ross Norvell, on March 7, 1894. Albert Smith Hendrick, who was born August 27, 1850, and known as LAS, died June 28, 1911. Anna Maria Hendrick, born November 21, 1854, who married Homer Harris, November 21, 1880, died September 2, 1903. Fanny E. Hendrick, born February 24, 1857, married William T. Thompson, January 19, 1875. Dr. Hendrick died January 24, 1882 and is buried at Harmony Hill.

Submitted by Ron Gregory